We'll never see it. it will pass (assuming it's present course) at such altitude that there will be zero atmospheric heating, and it will be traveling at such a high velocity that it'll be all over in a fraction of a second.

doc

03-06-2012, 12:21 PM

DumbAss Tanker

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Originally Posted by TVDOC

We'll never see it. it will pass (assuming it's present course) at such altitude that there will be zero atmospheric heating, and it will be traveling at such a high velocity that it'll be all over in a fraction of a second.

doc

Going from the JPL NEO information, relative velocity is around 6 km/s...pretty damned fast, but on the lower end of the spectrum as these things go.